Essential Studio® for Xamarin.Android Release Notes (Beta)

v17.2.0.28

June 27, 2019

DocIO

Features

#227695, #144419, #129497, #F136030, #118915 – Added group shapes support in DOCX to PDF conversion.
#217347, #237135 - Added support to perform Mail merge using ADO.NET Objects.
#227388 - New event has been added to customize clearing each unmerged merge fields during Mail merge.
#208057 - Added support for warnings to show unmatched merge fields and groups during Mail merge.
#209444 - API has been added to access the new instance (WPicture or WTextRange) to be replaced in Mail merge event arguments.
#208534 - API has been added to update the Word document fields while converting a Word document to PDF.
#222516 - RTL text rendering algorithm has been improved in Word to PDF conversion.

Bug Fixes

#233421 - Empty paragraph preservation issue has been resolved while replacing text with table.
#232599 - The ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while opening an RTF format document.
#231722 - HTML end tag is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to HTML format document.
#231594 - Dropdown form field is now preserved properly while converting an HTML to RTF format document.
#225752,#230460,#230460 - Line space preservation issue has been resolved when updating the Word document fields.
#F142931 - The DocProperty value is now preserved properly while converting a Word document as PDF.
#219214,#228161 - Merge field is now properly updated while executing Nested Mail merge.
#233913 - Right to left text is now preserved properly in DOCX to DOCX conversion.
#232775 - Header and Footer contents are now preserved properly in XML to DOCX format conversion.
#232718 - The Content control text is now preserved properly in DOCX to Text format conversion.
#F143772 - Nested bookmark is now preserved properly while opening a DOC format Word document.
#F143774 - Table cell contents are now preserved properly while applying horizontal merge to the table.
#232505 - Font is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#232502 - Content is now preserved properly while converting an RTF to HTML format conversion.
#232265 - Spacing issue has been resolved while converting an HTML to DOCX format document.
#231592 - TOC content is now preserved properly while updating table of content in Word document.
#231721 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#226490 - Corruption issue has been resolved while saving the DOCX format Word document.
#F143006 - Text is now preserved properly while replacing the bookmark content in DOC format document.
#228442 - Table alignment is now cloned properly while cloning the Word document.
#228370 - Table styles are now preserved properly while converting an HTML to DOCX format document.
#226490 - Corruption issue has been resolved while saving the DOC format Word document.
#230678, #228611 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#229685 - Table border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#229738 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#231056 - Border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#231712 – The NullReferenceException will be no longer thrown while updating fields in the Word document.
#231056 - Text overlapping issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#F142888, #229094 - Table cell borders are now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#228272 - Table border is now preserved properly while converting an RTF format document to PDF.
#227754 - Multiple TOC page numbers are updated properly while calling the UpdateTableOfContents method.
#231550 - Performance has been improved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#231426 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#229685 - Font is now embedded properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#229891 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#228974 - Ref field result is now preserved properly while updating the Word document fields.
#228974 - Unknown field result is now preserved properly while updating the Word document fields.
#228968 - Hanging issue has been resolved while updating the Word document fields.
#231751 - Space is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#227429 - Border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#228386 - Text with capital style is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#228319 - Page border is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#212671, #212772, #220859, #230072, #232381 - List style name is now updated properly while opening and saving a Word document.
#228049- Image position is now preserved properly while saving an RTF format Word document.
#231842- Content control text formatting is now preserved properly while parsing DOCX document.
#234841 - Watermark is now preserved properly while opening a DOC format Word document.
#235667 - Data inside the table is now preserved properly while updating alternate chunks in a Word document.
#231056 – IF field text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#231677 - Image is now preserved properly while saving a Word document.
#228049- Table left indent value is now preserved properly while opening an RTF document.
#234817 - Text color is now preserved properly while resaving a Word document.
#234270 - Content control text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234335 - Table preservation issue has been resolved while opening and saving a Word document.
#228049 - Header and Footer distance is now preserved properly while saving an RTF format Word document.
#231431 - The System.OverFlowException will no longer be thrown while saving a DOCX format Word document.
#234971 - Table cells are now preserved properly while converting a Word document to Image.
#234698 - The ArgumentOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234693 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#233642 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting an RTF to PDF.
#231056 - Spacing issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF
#230817 - Table cell is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#232331 - Shape is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234841 - Tab is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234972 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234972 - Pagination issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234841 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#233810 - Text is now aligned properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#233810 - Picture is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#232331 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#232770 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting a Word document to PDF.
#229546 - Text is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#231056 - Spacing issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#234409 - Frame content is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#236156 - Pagination issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#236611 - Footnote is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#236070 - Parentheses are now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#236156 - Hanging issue has been resolved while converting a Word document to PDF.
#235770 - Checkbox symbol is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to PDF.
#233383 - Memory usage is now optimized while converting a Word document to PDF with Chinese text.
#234978 - Table is now preserved properly while converting a Word document to Image.

PDF

Features

#230886 – Added support for trailer ID in both new and existing PDF documents.
Added support for adding PDF annotation comments and reviews.
#225704 – Added support for creating PDF 2.0 documents.
#141255, #226165 – Added save progress support for an existing PDF document.
#235204 – Added PDF light table column width proportional sizing support.

Bug Fixes

#231273 - Free text and polygon annotation are now preserving properly while flattening the PDF document.
#231625 - Review status is now preserving properly while exporting or importing the annotations.
#231273 - Object null reference exception no longer occurs while flattening the PDF documents.
#231795, #231668, #231273, #233045 - Review status and layer are now preserving properly while importing annotations from the XFDF file.
#226015 - Grouped annotations are now preserving properly while importing or exporting the annotations.
#232559 - PDF form fields are now cloned properly.
#233194 – Text is now preserving properly while filling form fields.
#232477, #232754 - Application will no longer crash while importing pages from the PDF document.
#228012, #231381 - Form fields are now preserving properly when loading a PDF document in different instances.
#226230 - Form fields will never be missing while importing pages from a PDF document.
#232496 - File size will no longer increase while continuously saving a PDF document.
#233102 – Invalid cast exception will no longer occur while flattening the combo box fields.
#233004 – Form fields size is now preserving properly while flattening form fields.
#231901, #228043 - Annotations are now flattened properly in a PDF document.
#231965, #231964 - Now, you will get proper exception messages while creating the QR barcodes with incorrect values.
#230688 - Document will no longer corrupt while saving the encrypted PDF document.
#230023 - Output document will no longer corrupt while loading the PDF documents.
#228375 - Annotations are now preserved properly while flatting them.
#228486 - Key not found exception will no longer occur while loading PDF document.
#232754 - Exception will no longer occur while importing pages from existing PDF document.
#228202, #228667 - Output document will no longer corrupt while merging the PDF documents.
#228635, #226614 - Exception will no longer occurs while obtaining destination from annotation.
#231801 - Exception will no longer occur while opening 256-bit protected document in Nuance PDF.
#228341 - Code 128, code 32, and code 93 extended barcodes are now rendered properly.
#228336 - Null reference exception will no longer occur while merging the PDF documents.
#227845 - Acroform fields tab index is now retrieved properly.
#229922, #234322 – Color is now preserving properly while using PDF linear gradient brush with vertical mode.
#226451 - Font is now retrieved properly in the free text annotation.
#231299 - Null reference exception will no longer occur while saving a PDF document with Incremental update.
#142705 - QR barcode is now preserved properly while using special characters.
#237633 – Exception will no longer occur while signing PDF with timestamp server.
#237481 – Output document will never corrupt when open/save it using open and repair.
#237481 – Output document will never corrupt while changing the document permissions.
#236168 – Named destination will be added properly.
#234809, #144285, #235480, #237790, #237790 – Position is now proper while adding signature field to the existing PDF file.
#234458 – PdfLoadedPage client size is now retrieved properly.
#233768 – Layers are now preserved properly when flattening annotations.
#228341 – Code 93 and Code 93 extended barcode are not generated properly.
#235715 – Preservation issue will no longer occur while drawing PDF grid.
Combo box field values are now exported properly.
#234957 – Values are now preserved properly in MAC Preview, when filling or flattening form fields.

Presentation

Features

#236376 - Support has been added to PowerPoint write protection.
#237068 - Support has been added to get the dynamic height of a PowerPoint table.

Bug Fixes

#212572, #229361 - The group-shapes will now be rendered properly if vertical or horizontal flips applied along with rotations.
#229361 - Table cell background is now properly applied for vertically merged cells in PowerPoint to PDF conversion.
#232725 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting PowerPoint to PDF.
#230386 - The StackOverflowException will no longer be thrown while accessing paragraph font color.
#230575 - Formatting will be preserved properly after cloning and merging a PowerPoint slide with destination theme.
#232687 - Chart axis and labels will now be rendered properly in PowerPoint to PDF conversion.
#233799 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while cloning OLE Object in master slide.
#231053 - Chart data label color will not be changed while cloning a PowerPoint slide with chart.
#233982 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while parsing customized master slide.
#236894 - Hanging issue has been resolved while parsing a PowerPoint with sound transition.
#236892 - The IndexOutOfRangeException will no longer be thrown while converting PowerPoint to Image.
#232687 - Value axis title will be aligned properly while converting PowerPoint to PDF.
#236432 - The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown while converting PowerPoint to PDF in Xamarin.Android.

SfAutoComplete

Features

#231439 - DropDownBorderColor support has been provided.
#232276 - NoResultsFound customization has been implemented.
#143697 - Attribute support has been provided.

SfCalendar

Features

#204121 - Support has been provided to change the number of weeks in Month view for SfCalendar.
#143348 - Decade view and Century view supports have been provided for SfCalendar.

Breaking Changes

The default view mode of YearView has been changed to Month view. It can be modified using the YearViewMode property of SfCalendar.
Now, InlineView appointment height default value has been changed to 150.

SfChart

Features

The chart control supports to perform zooming based on pinch gesture direction.
Now, the chart control supports waterfall series type.
Now, the chart control supports to customize the appearance of individual axis element based on condition.

SfComboBox

Features

#231439 - DropDownBorderColor support has been provided.
#232276 - NoResultsFound customization has been implemented.
#143697 - Attribute support has been provided.

SfDataForm

Features

#207100, #139285, #215075, #216539, #142599 – Support has been provided to change the height of each DataFormItem in SfDataForm.
#204205, #142500 – Support has been provided to set the top or left LabelPosition for each DataFormItem in SfDataForm.

SfDataGrid

Features

##199504, #216983, #219608 - Support has been provided to change the flow of text to the right-to-left direction.
#216007 - Support has been provided to unbound rows to display additional rows that are not bound to the underlying data source in DataGrid.

SfImageEditor

Bug fixes

#232793 – The NullReferenceException will no longer be thrown when deploying the Android SampleBrowser with ImageEditor more than five times.

SfMaps

Bug fixes

# 232802,# 232803 – Positioning the Marker and Zooming the maps work properly in low density devices.

SfNavigationDrawer

Features

#230577 - The ContentBackgroundColor API support has been provided to NavigationDrawer.

SfPdfViewer

Features

#191469, #223014, #224738, #225436 #226356, #228236, #230351 – Support for custom stamp annotation has been provided.
#196290, #200911, #211119, #233085 – Optimized the huge time taken while searching text in larger PDF document.
#233085 – Support to display loading indicator and the highlighted text instance count out of total occurrences while searching the text has been provided.
#226922 – Accessibility support for SfPdfViewer has been provided.
#226544 – Localization support for ScrollHead has been provided.

Bug Fixes

#232883 – Now, radio button with same form field groups can be selected properly.
#232731 - Scroller will no longer move to first page while entering input in the text box field presented in other pages.
#232733 - First item of combo box will not be selected or shown if the loaded document does not contain selection index.
#228010, #230801 – Buttons in the signature will not be cropped irrespective of device text size.
#233911 – Application will no longer crash when scrolling using scroll head.
#238398 – Form fields values are now preserved properly when saving the PDF document.
Radio button form fields are now working properly.
NullReferenceException will no longer occur when loading the particular PDF document.
InvalidOperationException will no longer occur when loading the particular PDF document.

SfPicker

Bug Fixes

#236621, #236972 -Now, SfPicker works properly using custom month logic.

SfPopupLayout

Features

Support has been provided to keep the pop-up open even when the back navigation key is pressed.

SfRadialMenu

Features

#216121 - Support has been provided to set the start angle of the radial menu item.

SfSchedule

Features

#150133, #154111, #188784, #198541, #220657, #222172, #223609, #235542, #236744 – TimelineView support has been provided for SfSchedule.

SfTabView

Bug Fixes

#236890 - Now, the SelectedIndex is updated correctly when removing the items of drop-down in the OverFlow mode.

XlsIO

Features

#227983 - Exception, “Text length cannot be more than 32767” can be ignored using the ExcludeAdditionalCharacters flag.
#230550, #230543 - The QueryTable parameters have been implemented.

Breaking Changes

#227983 - ExcludeAdditionalCharacters has been added in IApplication class to ignore exception and exclude characters more than 32767 (maximum allowed characters) in a cell text.
#230550, #230543 - IParameters interface is added to represent the parameter collection of query table.
#230550, #230543 - Add() method is added in IParameters interface to add parameter to the query table.
#230550, #230543 - ExcelParameterDataType enum is added to represent the parameter data types.
#230550, #230543 - ExcelParameterType enum is added to represent the parameter types.
#230550, #230543 - IParameter interface is added to represent the parameter of query table.
#230550, #230543 - DataType property is added in IParameter interface to represent the SQL data type.
#230550, #230543 - Type property is added in IParameter interface to represent the parameter type.
#230550, #230543 - PromptString property is added in IParameter interface to represent the prompt string.
#230550, #230543 - Value property is added in IParameter interface to represent the parameter value.
#230550, #230543 - CellReference property is added in IParameter interface to represent the parameter cell reference.
#230550, #230543 - Name property is added in IParameter interface to represent the parameter name.
#230550, #230543 - RefreshOnChange property is added in IParameter interface to indicate whether the query table will be refreshed when the parameter is changed.
#230550, #230543 - Prompt property is added in IParameter interface that occurs when refreshing the table after setting the parameter type to prompt.
#230550, #230543 - SetParam() method is added in IParameter interface to set value to the parameter.
#230550, #230543 - Parameters property is added in QueryTableImpl class to represent the parameters of query table.
#234003 - IgnoreSheetNameException property is added in both IApplication interface and ApplicationImpl class, which gets or sets a boolean value to ignore duplicate worksheet name exception by adding a suffix at the end.
#222226 - HighLowLines property in IChartFormat class gets high-low lines of stock and line charts.
#222226 - DropLines property in IChartFormat class gets drop lines of stock, line and area charts.
#222226 - DropLineStyle property in IChartFormat class gets or sets drop lines or high-low lines or series lines.
#222226 - HasDropLines property in IChartFormat class gets or sets a boolean value denoting the drop lines of stock, line, or area charts.
#222226 - HasHighLowLines property in IChartFormat class gets or sets a boolean value denoting the high-low lines of stock or line charts.
#222226 - HasSeriesLines property in IChartFormat class gets or sets a boolean value denoting the series lines of pie of pie or bar of pie charts.
#F143384 - GetDirectPrecedents() method is implemented in IRange class to get the direct precedent cells, which are referred by a formula in another cell.
#F143384 - GetDirectDependents() method is implemented in IRange class to get the direct dependent cells, which refer to other cells.

Bug Fixes

#F144022, #224520 - Conditional formatting formula with sheet reference is now proper.
#227766, #231068 - Chart legend is now rendered properly while changing the chart type.
#232040, #232682 - Cell background color is now rendered properly on converting XML to XLSX format.
#229121 - Picture name is now updated properly after removing a picture and inserting a new picture.
#226753 - Exception is no longer thrown while opening an Excel file with formula in Dutch culture.
#230294 - Picture created with camera tool is now properly changed with the INDIRECT() formula.
#230697 - After accessing the used range, relative range indexer is now working properly.
#231469 - Application no longer hangs while opening an Excel file with picture that has unsupported elements.
#226860 - Performance will not degrade on exporting a range to a data table multiple times.
#229117 - Named range index is now updated properly while copying ranges from two different workbooks.
#228853 - Footer value in source worksheet no longer changes while modifying footer in cloned worksheet.
#228560 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while cloning the workbook.
#224793 - Extra pages are no longer added with FitAllColumnsOnOnePage layout setting in Excel to PDF conversion.
#231271 - Timestamp is preserved in zip file.
#227209 - Argument out of range exception is no longer thrown while applying the template marker with UnKnownVariableAction.ReplaceBlank.
#232727 - Argument exception is no longer thrown while opening an Excel file with IgnoreErrors.
#228711 - Performance will not degrade on exporting data from Grid to Excel.
#226133 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while accessing a range from cloned workbook.
#225831 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while converting worksheet to PDF.
#229460 - Exception is no longer thrown while converting Excel to PDF with hyperlink.
#231882 - Performance will not degrade on exporting pivot grid to Excel.
#232040 - Cell Styles are now preserved properly after resaving the output file with Microsoft Excel.
#232473 - Macro name is now set properly in shapes.
#227998 - Pivot table with tabular layout no longer increases the page count in Excel to PDF conversion.
#230759 - Conditional formatting with discontinuous range is now preserved properly in Excel to PDF conversion.
#229528 - Exception is no longer thrown while opening a resaved Excel document with ExcelIgnoreError option.
#227410 - Pivot table field item is now preserved properly while resaving the Excel file with the IsRefreshOnLoad property.
#235570 - Exception is no longer thrown when setting date time value in general format without having date separators.
#233740 - Exception is no longer thrown on converting Excel to PDF with Doughnut chart.
#228415 - Ole object formula bar is now shown properly on resaving the Excel document with Ole object.
#236136 - Exception is no longer thrown while setting PivotFieldDataFormat as PercentageOfParent in pivot table.
#225098 - The position of form controls (CheckBox, ComboBox, OptionButton) is now updated properly on inserting row or column.
#234572 - Data validation is now properly preserved while resaving the Excel document.
#234003 - Exception is no longer thrown while setting existing name to the worksheet.
#225207 - Series missing issue with incompatible charts is fixed.
#233740 - Issue with “Textbox in chart is missing while resaving the Excel document” has been fixed.
#236712 - Performance is improved while saving Excel file in .NET Standard.
#235011 - Exception is no longer thrown while opening the Excel document with negative anchor row and column.
#199992 - Chart Axis interval is now preserved properly in chart to image conversion.
#234789 - Multiple filter is now working properly in pivot table while setting IsMultiFieldFilter to TRUE.
#234003 - Exception is no longer thrown while setting a name that is already in the existing sheet names collection.
#222226 - HighLowLines, DropLines, DropLineStyle, HasDropLines, HasHighLowLines and HasSeriesLines APIs are exposed.
#231382 - Spreadsheet XML is now stable.
#231382 - Named range is now stable.
#F141716 - Exception is no longer thrown while opening the Excel file when a namespace is not defined.
#F142864 - Exception is no longer thrown while accessing the IRange.Value property in multi-threading.
#F143467 - Argument null exception is no longer thrown while converting Excel to PDF.
#F143384 - Direct dependency in IRange is now working properly.
Issue with “Waterfall chart individual data label color is not changing” has been fixed.